Journey to wellness: British woman Kelly Luff has beaten the rare condition of melanoma of the eye. A reminder to keep up with health checks. - Photo Daily Mail - United Kingdom.
This young British woman's Beating the Odds story is inspiring but scary and highlights the need for us all to keep up with our health checks.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3159780/The-deadly-skin-cancer-EYE-one-virulent-cancers-malignant-melanomas-DON-T-just-develop-sunburnt-skin.html
Just in the process of taking her son to the optician, Kelly Luff decided to get her own eyes checked and that process showed she had cancer of the eye.
As this story points out, there are many other health issues that can be identified by eye tests, including other eye illnesses and even diabetes.
But Kelly managed to beat the disease and keep her eye.
As she said, eye cancer isn't very prevalent and not something you hear about much at all.
So this diagnosis was the last thing she would have been expecting.
Although melanoma is often associated with the skin being exposed to too much sun, it's amazing how many people seem to get it who are not sun bunnies at all.
We wish Kelly well with her continued recovery. Hopefully, she is one of the lucky ones!
Let us know if you've had a brush with melanoma, or any kind of cancer. It might help someone else facing the same thing.
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